These inspired me and gave me strength today...

I'm gonna find me a man, love him so well, love him so strong, love him so slow ( Read more... )

For my boy...

You Rise And Meet The Day
-Dar Williams

We could pretend that we’re walking on petals and light, golden light
Flaunting our love like a dance step mastered, turning from left to right
But after all the colored lights are gone
Time will leave the ashes and the dawn
You rise and meet the day

I’m watching you go, it’s like spying on hope ( Read more... )

Long Ride Home by Patty Griffin

Long black limousine
Shiniest car I've ever seen
The back seat is nice and clean
She rides as quiet as a dream

Someone dug a hole six long feet in the ground
I said goodbye to you and I threw my roses down
Ain't nothing left at all in the end of being proud
With me riding in this car, and you flying through them ( Read more... )

Iowa by Dar Williams

I've never had a way with women
But the hills of Iowa make me wish that I could
And I've never found a way to say I love you
But if the chance came by oh I, I would
But way back where I come from, we never mean to bother
We don't like to make our passions other people's concern
And we walk in the world of safe people
And at ( Read more... )

Rowing Song by Patty Griffin

As I row, row, row
Going so slow, slow, slow
Just down below me is the old sea
Just down below me is the old sea
Nobody knows, knows, knows
So many things, things, so
So out of range
Sometimes so strange
Sometimes so sweet
Sometimes so lonely

The further I go
More letters from home
Never arrive
And I'm alone
All of the ( Read more... )

The Great Unknown by Dar Williams

Once upon a time, there was a nuclear family
and they lived in family time, they'd unite in a family way.
And off on the ancient mountain, they were splitting every nucleus
and they said "Don't be alarmed."
They said "Just don't try this at home".

And they were the mystery that made the world run,
and we had the ( Read more... )

I"ve been driving my mom's car all week because my daddy is fixing my car.  Mom's car doesn't have a cd player, so I have been playing old cassette tapes.  I listened to the Singles soundtrack on Monday and rocked out to Mother Love Bone and Pearl Jam.  Yesterday, I found a Melissa Ferrick tape that my friend Kristin made for me several years ago ( Read more... )

It seems like this song finds its way to me when I am just starting to get sick of holding onto the past.  The words ring true every time.

Say goodbye to the old street that never cared much for you anyway
And the different colored doorways you thought would let you in one day
Goodbye to the old bus stop frozen and waiting
The weekend addition has ( Read more... )

February by Dar Williams

I threw your keys in the water, I looked back
They'd frozen halfway down in the ice
They froze up so quickly, the keys and their owners,
Even after the anger, it all turned silent, and
The everyday turned solitary,
So we came to February.

First we forgot where we'd planted those bulbs last year,
Then we forgot we'd planted ( Read more... )

Okay, so maybe Patty Griffin's grammar isn't the greatest, but this song is amazing.  It's one of those sing-at-the-top-of-your-lungs-while-speeding-down-the-freeway songs.  It's been in my head for days.

When It Don't Come Easy

Red lights are flashing on the highway
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home ( Read more... )